Disclosed herein is a method and system for integrating an enterprise's structured and unstructured data to provide users and enterprise applications with efficient and intelligent access to that data. In accordance with exemplary embodiments, the generation of metadata indexes about unstructured data can be hardware-accelerated by processing streaming unstructured data through a reconfigurable logic device to generate the metadata about the unstructured data for the index.
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18. A method for integrating unstructured data for a plurality of different data sources, the method comprising:
streaming unstructured data through a field programmable gate array (FPGA), the unstructured data comprising at least two members of the group consisting of (1) a plurality of emails, (2) a plurality of social network communications, (3) a plurality of corporate documents, and (4) a plurality of news reports;
the FPGA performing a metadata generation operation on the unstructured data streamed therethrough to thereby generate metadata about the unstructured data;
storing the unstructured data in a data store of unstructured data;
storing the metadata about the unstructured data in a database of structured data; and
determining a connectedness of a plurality of subjects based on an analysis of the stored unstructured data and the stored metadata.
1. A method for building a metadata index for unstructured data for a plurality of different data sources, the method comprising:
receiving streaming unstructured data into a reconfigurable logic device, the streaming unstructured data comprising a plurality of data items for a plurality of different sources, wherein the reconfigurable logic device has a plurality of pipelined firmware application modules deployed thereon;
the pipelined firmware application modules analyzing the streaming unstructured data to generate metadata about the streaming unstructured data at hardware processing speeds, the analyzing including detecting whether a term relating to a name is found in any of the data items, the generated metadata comprising data associated with the data item that is indicative of where a data item having the detected term can be located; and
generating an index about the streaming unstructured data from the generated metadata, the index for subsequent querying to locate data items of interest based on associations between the metadata and the data items.
23. A method for building a metadata index for unstructured data for a plurality of different data sources, the method comprising:
receiving streaming unstructured data into a reconfigurable logic device, the streaming unstructured data comprising a plurality of data items for a plurality of different sources, wherein the reconfigurable logic device has a plurality of pipelined firmware application modules deployed thereon;
the pipelined firmware application modules analyzing the streaming unstructured data to generate metadata about the streaming unstructured data at hardware processing speeds, the analyzing including detecting whether a term relating to a security instrument is found in any of the data items, the generated metadata comprising data associated with the data item that is indicative of where a data item having the detected term can be located; and
generating an index about the streaming unstructured data from the generated metadata, the index for subsequent querying to locate data items of interest based on associations between the metadata and the data items.
17. An apparatus for building a metadata index for unstructured data for a plurality of different data sources, the apparatus comprising:
a reconfigurable logic device; and
a memory;
wherein the reconfigurable logic device is configured to receive streaming unstructured data, the streaming unstructured data comprising a plurality of data items for a plurality of different sources, wherein the reconfigurable logic device has a plurality of pipelined firmware application modules deployed thereon;
the pipelined firmware application modules configured to perform analysis of the streaming unstructured data to generate metadata about the streaming unstructured data at hardware processing speeds, the analysis including a detection by the pipelined firmware application modules whether a term relating to a name is found in any of the data items, the generated metadata comprising data associated with the data item that is indicative of where a data item having the detected term can be located; and
the memory configured to store an index about the streaming unstructured data from the generated metadata, the index for querying to locate data items of interest based on associations between the metadata and the data items.
39. An apparatus for building a metadata index for unstructured data for a plurality of different data sources, the apparatus comprising:
a reconfigurable logic device; and
a memory;
wherein the reconfigurable logic device is configured to receive streaming unstructured data, the streaming unstructured data comprising a plurality of data items for a plurality of different sources, wherein the reconfigurable logic device has a plurality of pipelined firmware application modules deployed thereon;
the pipelined firmware application modules configured to perform analysis of the streaming unstructured data to generate metadata about the streaming unstructured data at hardware processing speeds, the analysis including a detection by the pipelined firmware application modules whether a term relating to a security instrument is found in any of the data items, the generated metadata comprising data associated with the data item that is indicative of where a data item having the detected term can be located; and
the memory configured to store an index about the streaming unstructured data from the generated metadata, the index for querying to locate data items of interest based on associations between the metadata and the data items.
2. The method of
3. The method of
4. The method of
wherein the index generating step further comprises generating an index about the streaming unstructured data based on the determined classification information.
5. The method of
6. The method of
7. The method of
streaming a plurality of the data items into the reconfigurable logic device from a plurality of remote data sources via a network interface.
8. The method of
performing a lookup using the generated index as part of a reputation analysis operation for an enterprise.
9. The method of
the pipelined firmware application modules identifying a plurality of names that are found within the data items, the index indexing the data items by the found names;
wherein the method further comprises:
performing a plurality of lookups relating to a plurality of the names using the generated index; and
determining a connectedness for a plurality of individuals based on the lookups.
10. The method of
11. The method of
12. The method of
the pipelined firmware application modules identifying a plurality of names that are found within the data items, the index indexing the data items by the found names;
wherein the method further comprises:
performing a plurality of lookups relating to a plurality of the names using the generated index; and
determining a connectedness for a plurality of organizations based on the lookups.
13. The method of
14. The method of
15. The method of
the pipelined firmware application modules identifying a plurality of names that are found within the data items, the index indexing the data items by the found names;
wherein the method further comprises:
performing a plurality of lookups relating to a plurality of the names using the generated index; and
determining a connectedness for a plurality of individuals and organizations based on the lookups.
16. The method of
integrating the index with structured data relating to the name in a structured database.
19. The method of
20. The method of
the FPGA identifying a plurality of names that are found in the streaming unstructured data, and wherein the generated metadata identifies where the identified names are present in the unstructured data.
21. The method of
22. The method of
24. The method of
25. The method of
26. The method of
wherein the index generating step further comprises generating an index about the streaming unstructured data based on the determined classification information.
27. The method of
28. The method of
streaming a plurality of the data items into the reconfigurable logic device from a plurality of remote data sources via a network interface.
29. The method of
performing a lookup using the generated index as part of an insider trading detection operation relating to the security instrument.
30. The method of
performing a lookup using the generated index as part of an reporting irregularity detection operation.
31. The method of
performing a lookup using the generated index as part of an illegal transaction detection operation relating to the security instrument.
32. The method of
performing a lookup using the generated index as part of a pricing anomaly detection operation relating to the security instrument.
33. The method of
performing a lookup using the generated index as part of a money laundering detection operation relating to the security instrument.
34. The method of
35. The method of
36. The method of
37. The method of
38. The method of
integrating the index with structured data relating to the security instrument in a structured database.
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This patent application is a continuation of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 13/442,442, filed Apr. 9, 2012, now U.S. Pat. No. 8,880,501, which is a continuation of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 12/640,891, filed Dec. 17, 2009, now U.S. Pat. No. 8,156,101, which is a continuation of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 11/938,709, filed Nov. 12, 2007, now U.S. Pat. No. 7,660,793, which claims priority to U.S. provisional patent application 60/865,629 filed Nov. 13, 2006, the entire disclosures of each of which are incorporated herein by reference.
This patent application is related to U.S. patent application Ser. No. 11/938,732, filed Nov. 12, 2007, entitled “Method and System for High Performance Data Metatagging and Data Indexing Using Coprocessors”, and published as U.S. Patent Application Publication 2008/0114725 A1, the entire disclosure of which is incorporated herein by reference.
This patent application is also related to U.S. patent application Ser. No. 13/686,338, filed Nov. 27, 2012, which is a continuation of the above-referenced '732 patent application.
The present invention is generally directed toward the field of database acceleration, particularly enterprise data warehouse acceleration, including areas such as enterprise data searching, document warehousing, text mining, text analytics, information access and enabling actionable intelligence.
The following paragraphs provide several definitions for various terms used herein. These paragraphs also provide background information relating to these terms.
There are a number of reasons why XML is will not normally be categorized as “structured” as that term is used herein:
Enterprises continue to store and manage their data in a variety of disparate manners. One manner by which enterprises store their data is within relational databases using relational database management systems (RDBMSs). The tabular, normalized data stored in such RDBMSs is commonly referred to as structured data. For example, an enterprise may format, cleanse, conform, and store its sales records and customer information as structured data within an RDBMS. A variety of well-known tools have been developed in the art for intelligently accessing such structured data, typically based on standardized data languages such as the Structured Query Language (SQL).
However, it is commonly estimated that such tabular structured data represents only a tiny fraction of the totality of an enterprise's stored data. The remainder of the stored data is typically comprised of unstructured data whose storage is usually spread out amongst a variety of different file systems and storage means within the enterprise. An explosion of unstructured objects and documents has left many enterprises with a serious case of “information overload”. Intelligent and unified access to all of this structured and unstructured data has posed a difficult challenge. Contributing to this difficulty is the fact that, with many enterprises, storage of an enterprise's unstructured data is managed separately from the databases, often by different organizational units. A huge challenge that many organizations face is to efficiently and effectively integrate their structured data in relational databases with the rest of this relatively unorganized mass of other unstructured data including blobs. Structured data can provide answers to relatively straight-forward questions like “what?”, “where?”, “when?”, “who?”; by using text analytics, unstructured data can answer more complex questions like “why?”.
When a user's search includes some form of full-text search, the software that supports such full-text querying will often take a relatively long time to complete, particularly when the query requires scanning the entire bodies of many large documents. This slowness is due, in part, to inherent constraints on the performance of general purpose processors (GPPs) when executing traditional software. Current indexing techniques have important limitations to yielding “find-ability”. Although indexing can be somewhat helpful in locating relevant documents, the task of searching for mis-spellings, alternate spelling variations, regular expressions, or searching for a large number of terms are problems not easily or quickly solved with current indexing solutions, and the time to create an effective index often becomes intractable. To state it differently, in order to build an effective index to help find something, it must be known beforehand what one is trying to find. One example of a shortcoming in conventional systems is that there is no easy or standard way to search for mis-spellings. These problems are compounded in situations where the data are dynamic or constantly changing.
Thus, with respect to an enterprise search environment such as that shown in
With respect to structured data, SQL has enjoyed widespread deployment within industry because of its ability to provide a standardized, consistent programming interface to many relational databases. However, the inventors herein recognize that current attempts to standardize the integration of SQL for structured data with full-text search capabilities (or other processing capabilities such as text analytics and text mining) on unstructured data have shown a need for improvement. The implementations of these attempts often evidence performance bottlenecks. Several efforts have arisen to extend standard SQL to integrate structured, tabular data and various forms of unstructured data. For example, SQL/XML for relational access to semi-structured XML data, SQL/MM for unstructured multimedia data, SQL/MED for unstructured external data, and XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 Full-Text 1.0 for searching XML data using regular expressions, wildcards, stemming, thesaurus and boolean operations. The inventors herein believe that these SQL extensions' abilities to deal with unstructured data largely represent an inconsistent and mixed jumble of dialects, which has hindered their widespread adoption in the IT industry. In the inventors' opinion, it is likely that serious performance issues have often slowed up these standardization efforts.
The widespread adoption of SQL has also lead to the development of a number of business intelligence (BI) reporting tools. The inventors believe that reporting tools' functionality for supporting unstructured text analysis is relatively limited and that a need exists in the art for improvements in this area. Most of these software tools have relatively modest abilities to perform full-text searches on unstructured data and other advanced text mining and analytics. The inventors reiterate their belief that the tools' performances have not been particularly efficient.
Accordingly, the inventors believe that there is a significant need in the art for a system that provides faster and more unified access to unstructured data. Moreover, the inventors herein further believe that there is a need in the art for a better manner by which structured and unstructured data are coordinated and integrated with each other to support intelligent access of unstructured data.
Toward these ends, the inventors disclose a new method and system configured to leverage hardware acceleration of the more complex unstructured data analysis during query processing in a manner that is tightly integrated with traditional standards-based query processing of structured data. In doing so, the present invention preferably harnesses the underlying hardware-accelerated technology disclosed in the following patents and patent applications: U.S. Pat. No. 6,711,558 entitled “Associated Database Scanning and Information Retrieval”, U.S. Pat. No. 7,139,743 entitled “Associative Database Scanning and Information Retrieval using FPGA Devices”, U.S. Patent Application Publication 2006/0294059 entitled “Intelligent Data Storage and Processing Using FPGA Devices”, U.S. Patent Application Publication 2007/0067108 entitled “Method and Apparatus for Performing Biosequence Similarity Searching”, U.S. Patent Application Publication 2008/0086274 entitled “Method and Apparatus for Protein Sequence Alignment Using FPGA Devices” (published from U.S. Application Ser. No. 11/836,947, filed Aug. 10, 2007), U.S. Patent Application Publication 2007/0130140 entitled “Method and Device for High Performance Regular Expression Pattern Matching”, U.S. Patent Application Publication 2007/0260602 entitled “Method and Apparatus for Approximate Pattern Matching” (published from U.S. patent application Ser. No. 11/381,214, filed May 2, 2006), U.S. Patent Application Publication 2007/0174841 entitled “Firmware Socket Module for FPGA-Based Pipeline Processing”, and U.S. Patent Application Publication 2007/0237327 entitled “Method and System for High Throughput Blockwise Independent Encryption/Decryption”), the entire disclosures of each of which are incorporated herein by reference.
This hardware acceleration is applied toward those portions of query handling that are well-suited to hardware acceleration (e.g., full-text search operations performed on unstructured data). To intelligently limit which unstructured data should be applied to the hardware-accelerated data processing operation (and thereby speed the overall response time), a system that embodies the present invention may also employ indexed queries of structured data stored in a database. Preferably, these queries are formulated as standardized indexed database queries, such as SQL commands directed toward RDBMSs. In this manner, users can formulate queries targeted toward both structured and unstructured data in a familiar way. An API in accordance with a preferred embodiment of the invention can be employed to effectively bifurcate query processing into a structured data portion and a hardware-accelerated unstructured data portion.
The hardware-accelerated data processing operation is preferably carried out by computer resources other than a GPP (preferably a coprocessor such as a reconfigurable logic device on which firmware is deployed), as described in the above-referenced and incorporated patents and patent applications. By utilizing a coprocessor for this purpose, significant acceleration in query processing is attained relative to conventional solutions that perform full-text searching of unstructured data using traditional software executed by GPPs, thereby freeing the system's GPP(s) to perform other system tasks.
The structured and indexed data that aids the query handling process preferably comprises at least in part the object's (e.g.
document's) metadata. This metadata, which is preferably stored in structured relational tables within an RDBMS, can be queried using standardized queries such as SQL commands to identify which subsets of unstructured data should be streamed through the coprocessor. In effect, according to one aspect, the present invention essentially SQL-enables the data processing capabilities of the coprocessor.
Preferably, the unstructured data that has been indexed with metadata is stored within high-performance disk space within an appliance that employs the coprocessor on which the data processing functionality for the unstructured data is deployed. In this manner, the unstructured data can be streamed through the coprocessor without network bandwidth constraints. The unstructured data can also be stored in some location that is accessible to appliance 200 via a high speed network.
The inventors herein further disclose that the generation of metadata from unstructured objects can also be hardware accelerated using a coprocessor (preferably using a coprocessor in the form of a reconfigurable logic device with appropriate firmware deployed thereon). Unstructured objects for which metadata is to be generated can be streamed through the appropriately-configured coprocessor to thereby expedite the generation of metadata that is used to index that unstructured data. Following this metadata generation, the entire bodies of these unstructured objects are preferably ingested into the disk space of the appliance.
The metadata is also preferably stored in an RDBMS internal to the appliance, but it should be noted that structured data stored in other relational databases external to the appliance can also be accessed as part of the query processing functionality of a preferred embodiment of the present invention.
The inventors envision that, in addition to the generalized data search described below, the present invention can be applied toward a myriad of applications. For example, in health care case management, various disparate data sources such as clinical research databases, patient record databases, databases of insurance and regulatory filings, and regulations databases can be integrated through the appliance described herein, thereby enhancing the abilities of health care organizations with respect to enhancing diagnoses, reducing misdiagnoses, ensuring adequate treatment, promoting quality of service, increasing utilization of available resources, reducing fraud, controlling costs and other goals.
In the scientific field, disparate data sources such as scientific and clinical literature, medical treatment records and reports, chemical compound databases, pharmaceutical databases, medical symptom databases and the like can be integrated using the appliance described herein. In this manner, the desirable goals include extracting relationships among biomedical and chemical entities, genetic markers—e.g., proteins and genes, base sequences—and symptoms—patterns such as “A inhibits B”, “A activates B”, and “A is associated with B”. Entity extraction in the context can refer to recognition of gene, protein, chemical, symptom and syndrome names and signatures from biomedical and chemical texts based on domain dictionaries.
In the intelligence and counter-terrorism field, disparate data sources such as news and investigative reports, communications intercepts, documents, and case files (all in a variety of languages) can be integrated through the appliance described herein. The targets and patterns that can be detected through integrated and intelligent access to this data includes organizational associations and networks, behavioral/attack patterns, threat assessment, strategy development, tactical evaluation, and event prediction.
In the law enforcement field, similar data sources to the intelligence/counter-terrorism field can be integrated, along with crime and court reports, legal documents, as well as geographic and demographic data using the appliance described herein. Goals of such integration would include detection of crime patterns (temporal, geospatial, interpersonal, and/or organizational) as well as support of criminal investigations and prosecutions.
In the securities fraud detection field, disparate data sources such as financial and news reports, corporate filings and documents, and trading and other transactional records can all be integrated using the appliance described herein, thereby enhancing the ability to detect such activities as insider trading, reporting irregularities, money laundering, illegal transactions, and pricing anomalies.
In the field of customer relationship management (CRM), disparate data sources such as customer email and letters, call center notes and transcripts, as well as other customer data maintained in existing CRM systems can all be integrated using the appliance described herein. Through such integration, one can potentially identify product and service quality issues, and assist in product design and management.
In the reputation management field, disparate data sources can include news reports, web pages, and market analyses can be integrated using the appliance described herein to perform text mining and pattern detection operations that reveal the state of an enterprise's relations with the public.
Similarly, the appliance described herein can be used as a social network analysis tool that analyzes email and other communications, corporate documents, and news reports to determine the connectedness of individuals and organizations.
Other areas that are believed to be ripe for the deployment of the appliance described herein include operations management, competitive intelligence, legal discovery (e.g., where a plaintiff in a law suit requests all data maintained or under the control of the defendant that relates to “John Smith”), content rights management, regulatory compliance, and others.
Furthermore, the invention described herein can be used to significantly accelerate metadata generation operations that are performed on data, including automated generation of content-derived metadata.
These and other features and advantages of the present invention will be apparent to those having ordinary skill in the art upon review of the following description and drawings.
Preferably, search appliance 200 employs a hardware-accelerated data processing capability as well as a query handling API for handling queries directed at least partially toward structured data.
In a preferred embodiment, the coprocessor 450 comprises a reconfigurable logic device 402. Preferably, data streams into the reconfigurable logic device 402 by way of system bus 406, although other design architectures are possible (see
The data store 306 can be any data storage device/system, but is preferably some form of a mass storage medium. For example, the data store 306 can be a magnetic storage device such as an array of disks. However, it should be noted that other types of storage media are suitable for use in the practice of the invention.
The computer system defined by processor 412 and RAM 408 can be any commodity computer system as would be understood by those having ordinary skill in the art. For example, the computer system may be an Intel Xeon system or an AMD Opteron system. Thus, processor 412, which serves as the central or main processor for appliance 200, preferably comprises a GPP.
The reconfigurable logic device 402 has firmware modules deployed thereon that define its functionality. The firmware socket module 404 handles the data movement requirements (both command data and target data) into and out of the reconfigurable logic device, thereby providing a consistent application interface to the firmware application module (FAM) chain 350 that is also deployed on the reconfigurable logic device. The FAMs 350i of the FAM chain 350 are configured to perform specified data processing operations on any data that streams through the chain 350 from the firmware socket module 404. Preferred examples of FAMs that can be deployed on reconfigurable logic in accordance with a preferred embodiment of the present invention are described below.
The specific data processing operation that is performed by a FAM is controlled/parameterized by the command data that FAM receives from the firmware socket module 404. This command data can be FAM-specific, and upon receipt of the command, the FAM will arrange itself to carry out the data processing operation controlled by the received command. For example, within a FAM that is configured to perform an exact match operation, the FAM's exact match operation can be parameterized to define the key(s) that the exact match operation will be run against. In this way, a FAM that is configured to perform an exact match operation can be readily re-arranged to perform a different exact match operation by simply loading new parameters for one or more different keys in that FAM.
Once a FAM has been arranged to perform the data processing operation specified by a received command, that FAM is ready to carry out its specified data processing operation on the data stream that it receives from the firmware socket module. Thus, a FAM can be arranged through an appropriate command to process a specified stream of data in a specified manner. Once the FAM has completed its data processing operation, another command can be sent to that FAM that will cause the FAM to re-arrange itself to alter the nature of the data processing operation performed thereby. Not only will the FAM operate at hardware speeds (thereby providing a high throughput of target data through the FAM), but the FAMs can also be flexibly reprogrammed to change the parameters of their data processing operations.
The FAM chain 350 preferably comprises a plurality of firmware application modules (FAMs) 350a, 350b, . . . that are arranged in a pipelined sequence. However, it should be noted that within the firmware pipeline, one or more parallel paths of FAMs 350i can be employed. For example, the firmware chain may comprise three FAMs arranged in a first pipelined path (e.g., FAMs 350a, 350b, 350c) and four FAMs arranged in a second pipelined path (e.g., FAMs 350d, 350e, 350f, and 350g), wherein the first and second pipelined paths are parallel with each other. Furthermore, the firmware pipeline can have one or more paths branch off from an existing pipeline path. A practitioner of the present invention can design an appropriate arrangement of FAMs for FAM chain 350 based on the processing needs of a given application.
A communication path 430 connects the firmware socket module 404 with the input of the first one of the pipelined FAMs 350a. The input of the first FAM 350a serves as the entry point into the FAM chain 350. A communication path 432 connects the output of the final one of the pipelined FAMs 350m with the firmware socket module 404. The output of the final FAM 350m serves as the exit point from the FAM chain 350. Both communication path 430 and communication path 432 are preferably multi-bit paths.
The nature of the software and hardware/software interfaces used by appliance 200, particularly in connection with data flow into and out of the firmware socket module are described in greater detail in the above-referenced and incorporated U.S. Patent Application Publication 2007/0174841.
It is worth noting that in either the configuration of
In the exemplary embodiments discussed herein, the term “documents” will be used to describe the unstructured data that is processed through the inventive system. However, it should be noted that the usage of the term “documents” is meant to be only exemplary as other forms unstructured data can also be processed using the inventive system and method.
An optional configuration that may enhance performance of appliance 200 is the ability to bring a large number (possibly all) of an enterprise's documents into its on-board data store 306. Furthermore, it is preferred that in doing so, the appliance 200 build metadata about each document that it ingests. This document metadata comprises structured data that can then be stored in a relational database system such as in on-board RDBMS 304.
FAMs resident in firmware pipeline 350 are preferably arranged to perform a document metadata generation operation on the documents it receives. Examples of document metadata generation techniques that could be employed in firmware 350 include but are not limited to part-of-speech tagging, information and entity extraction, document classification, document clustering, and text summarization. Functionally, these operations can be viewed as a series of “transformations” on a data stream of one or more documents. One illustrative example of a document classification operation that can be performed on documents includes language classification. With language classification, the document can be applied to a statistical n-gram algorithm that is configured to identify the language that the text within the document most closely matches. Other document classification operations can employ hidden Markov models (HMMs) to learn some type of classification for the document. Further still, regular expression pattern matching can be employed by the firmware 350 to further develop classification information about a document. As an example, a document classifier that can be used may be a flag that identifies whether the document in question contains a credit card number; in such cases, firmware 350 can include FAMs that implement a regular expression pattern matching operation, wherein this regular expression pattern matching operation is keyed around determining whether a document streamed therethrough includes a data pattern that looks like a credit card number. Based on the results of this operation, the credit card indicator metadata can be set to positive or negative.
It is believed that conventional approaches to metadata generation operations have built these operations into software executed by a main processor such as processor 412, which as explained above, exhibits performance shortcomings. The inventors believe that by offloading these metadata generation operations to a coprocessor 450, significant acceleration can be achieved. Additional details regarding the use of coprocessors to perform metadata generation operations can be found in the above-referenced and incorporated U.S. patent application Ser. No. 11/938,732 entitled “Method and System for High Performance Data Metatagging and Data Indexing Using Coprocessors”.
The document metadata 314 that is produced by the operation of firmware 350 can then be stored in RDBMS 304, wherein the RDBMS engine operates to generate and maintain an index of this document metadata that can later be queried using standardized database queries to identify which documents within data store 306 should be processed through the coprocessor 450 at hardware speeds during query processing. After the received document 312 has been processed by firmware 350, document 312 can then be ingested into the appliance by storing it in the data store 306 of unstructured data. The acts of metadata generation and document ingestion preferably operate virtually concurrently in near-real time. It should be noted that the document metadata 314 can optionally be stored in a structured database external to the appliance 200.
In this manner, appliance 200 can now use the document metadata 314 indexed by RDBMS 304 to aid decisions as to which documents should be subjected to a query-specified data processing operation (e.g., a full-text searching operation) via coprocessor 450. Furthermore, because standardized RDBMS technology has been leveraged within appliance 200, standardized database queries that are well-known to a number of users can be used to decide which documents are to be subjected to the coprocessor-based data processing operation when processing a given query 904.
It is generally preferred that the relational database 304 use indexing methodologies such as B-tree indexes to optimize queries of the document metadata 314. Also, because of the richness of the indexes that can be generated via the hardware-accelerated metadata generation. Sophisticated full-text searching operations, including proximity searching (i.e., finding instances where Word X is separated from Word Y by less than Z word positions), can be efficiently accomplished by leveraging the power of the indexes.
Furthermore, when an enterprise adopts appliance 200 to aid its enterprise data handling operations, the document ingest pre-processing can be applied not only prospectively to newly-created documents but also retroactively to all or a significant subset of the enterprise's already existing documents. Thus, when installing the appliance 200, an enterprise may want to ingest all or a significant subset of its documents through the appliance as specified in connection with
It should also be noted that the storage 308 from which documents are ingested into appliance 200 for pre-processing can be any data store accessible through the enterprise network (e.g., enterprise data stores within enterprise network 420 and data stores that are external to the enterprise network but nevertheless accessible thereto). For example, the documents that are ingested into appliance 200 can be Internet content such as web pages.
Once document metadata 314 for a significant number of documents 312 has been stored in RDBMS 304, the appliance 200 is now ready to handle user-specified queries. An API within appliance 200 is preferably configured to enable the appliance to process standardized database queries against the document metadata 314 in RDBMS 304 and then use the result set of the query to determine which documents should be delivered to coprocessor 450 for a query-specified data processing operation.
Thus, a preferred embodiment of the present invention operates to provide SQL-enabled client applications with the ability to access the hardware-accelerated functionality of coprocessor 450 via SQL commands. Thus, not only can the appliance 200 be integrated with a SQL-enabled client application such as a BI reporting tool 900, but the appliance 200 can also or alternatively be integrated with other SQL-enabled applications. For example, the appliance 200 can be integrated with any or all of the following SQL-enabled applications: various enterprise software applications (such as ERP, CRM, SAP, etc.), middleware programs, client programs, custom-built programs written in any of a large number of programming languages (e.g., using ODBC or JDBC connectivity), and another SQL database that is linked to database 304.
Within the appliance 200 itself, the SQL-enablement preferably includes a high-performance, tight integration with conventional SQL relational engine software 950. An example of this is shown in
For example, code can be added to the relational engine 950 that invokes a desired external procedure when certain statements are encountered in a SQL command. An example of this is shown in
If the appliance 200 is implemented with an open-source database 304, such as MySQL, then the integration can be achieved directly within the relational engine source code itself. With the greater flexibility that an open-source solution provides, a SQL parser/interpreter can be developed that serves as the API 902 and intermediates all SQL requests between the client application and the database 304. An exemplary implementation of a SQL parser/interpreter strategy for API 902 is documented in
Returning to the embodiment of
Next, at step 1170, the relational engine 950 preferably formats the search results 916 to a format expected by the reporting tool 900, and the reporting tool 900 operates using its existing technology to present those search results 916 to the user.
As there are a wide variety of BI reporting tools 900 used in industry, the API 902 is preferably configured with the capability to interface with at least most of the major BI reporting tools. For example, a configuration file maintained by the search appliance 200 can be set up during initialization of search appliance 200 within an enterprise to identify the particular BI reporting tool 900 with which the search appliance 200 will interact to enable data exchanges therebetween.
It should also be noted that a conventional BI reporting tool 900 need not be used as the interface between the search appliance 200 and the user. For example, search appliance 200 can be configured to provide its own GUIs for display to users, wherein these GUIs are configured to provide the same basic functionality as BI reporting tools. In this manner, the API 902 could then optionally be configured to directly translate the user-specified query 904 into the database query 908.
Further still, it should be noted that the standardized query 906 need not originate from a BI reporting tool 900 or user; instead it can originate from some other enterprise application that is making a call on the data stored by or known to the search appliance 200.
Also, it should be noted that the API 902 described herein as part of the search appliance 200 can optionally be located, in whole or in part, within the BI reporting tool 900 or other higher level application.
The relational engine 950 identifies the “date_loaded” constraint as a document metadata item and further identifies the text constraint as a matter to be resolved by the coprocessor 450, as discussed above. With respect to the embodiment of
The RDBMS then returns a list 910 of all documents identified by the metadata index 314 as matching the “date_loaded” constraint (i.e., RDBMS 304 would then apply this SQL command 908 against its document metadata index to return a list of all documents that were loaded into data store 306 on Jul. 7, 2007), wherein this list 910 can be stored in RAM 408 (for example, a temporary database table built in memory to store the list of filenames which matched the “where” clause criteria). (See step 1120; see also
The API 902 (via API 952 for the embodiment of
In response to the request 912, data store 306 outputs a data stream 914 for delivery to the coprocessor 450 (preferably to the firmware on reconfigurable logic device 402), as shown in
It should also be noted that the documents 312 for which document metadata 314 has been generated need not necessarily be stored within the appliance in data store 306. Those documents can be retained in their original locations outside the appliance 200 if desired. In such instances, when it is time for those documents to be full-text processed via coprocessor 450, those documents can streamed into appliance 200 and coprocessor 450 via network interface 410.
Another powerful aspect of the preferred embodiment is the ability of the appliance 200 to access any enterprise RDBMSs 1300 that are external to the search appliance 200 when performing data processing operations. An overview of this aspect of the preferred embodiment is shown in
Because the enterprise stores its customer sales data in an RDBMS 1300 that is external to the search appliance 200, SQL command 906 operates to join data tables in external RDBMS 1300 with document metadata tables in RDBMS 304. This action is reflected in the “inner join” statement that joins the customer data in the “Customers@external_DB C” relational table in an external RDBMS 1300 with the document metadata relational table in RDBMS 304, based on a merged key of “D.Customer_ID” (for the document metadata table) and “C.Customer_ID” (for the external relational table), a SQL operation that is well-known in the art. Based on this merge, the relational engine 950 can identify from the external relational table which customers have sales volumes below 10,000 and tie those customers to a field in the document metadata table. Then the documents for those customers can be further restricted based on the “date loaded” metadata field in the document metadata. Finally, the documents for customers meeting the sales volume and date loaded constraints can be processed within coprocessor 450 for high speed text mining based on the “‘trouble’ near ‘widget’ or ‘new product’” constraint. Thereafter, processing can proceed as described in connection with
The relational engine 950 then continues its handling of SQL command 906 and determines whether any additional constraints are remaining from command 906 that are directed toward RDBMS 304. If there are not, then a SQL command 908 is built for RDBMS 304 based on the customers in result set 1304. If there are, then a SQL command 908 is built for RDBMS 304 based on both the result set 1304 and any remaining internal RDBMS-directed constraints (e.g., the “date loaded” “constraint” in the example of
Upon receiving the document list 910 in response to command 908, the remainder of the query processing proceeds as explained above in connection with
As previously noted,
API 902 also discloses a series of processing steps for use when at least a portion of the structured data is stored in an RDBMS that is external to the appliance 200. With respect to the working example of
It is also worth noting, that the appliance 200 can also be configured to handle queries from a higher level application such as a BI reporting tool 900 that are directed toward neither documents within data store 304, documents about which RDBMS 304 maintains metadata, or data within RDBMS 304. In such instances, the API 902 essentially acts as a pass through (at least as a pass through to relational engine 950) as those queries are directed toward the appropriate external components (see steps 1604, 1608, 1614, and 1618).
It can also be noted that API 902 can be configured to handle queries that are directed solely toward metadata within RDBMS 304 (e.g., queries on the metadata but that do not include a document text searching constraint), as shown by steps 1606, 1612, 1614 and 1618 in
As an alternative to this mode of operation, the FAM set 1700 and the FAM set 1702 can both be set up as their own separate individual pipelines, as shown in
Any of a variety of algorithms can be used for the query-specified data processing operation performed by coprocessor 450 (preferably via firmware 350 deployed on a reconfigurable logic device 402). As mentioned above, full-text searching can be carried out by the coprocessor. Examples of various full-text searching operations that can be performed by the coprocessor include exact match operations, approximate match operations, regular expression matching operations, pattern matching operations, and others. With full-text searching, one or more keys corresponding to the data sought to be found in the unstructured data (as defined by the query) can be loaded into the coprocessor 450 and the streaming unstructured data can be compared against the one or more keys using various techniques to determine whether any of the streaming unstructured data satisfies the query. Exemplary embodiments for such full-text searching operations are disclosed in the above-referenced and incorporated U.S. Pat. Nos. 6,711,558 and 7,139,743 and U.S. Patent Application Publications 2006/0294059, 2007/0130140, and U.S. Patent Application Publication 2007/0260602 entitled “Method and Apparatus for Approximate Pattern Matching” (published from U.S. application Ser. No. 11/381,214, filed May 2, 2006).
Another example of a data processing operation that can be performed by the coprocessor 450 includes biosequence similarity searching, embodiments of which are disclosed in U.S. Patent Application Publication 2007/0067108 and U.S. Patent Application Publication 2008/0086274 entitled “Method and Apparatus for Protein Sequence Alignment Using FPGA Devices” (published from U.S. application Ser. No. 11/836,947, filed Aug. 10, 2007), both of which are referenced and incorporated above.
Further still, a pipeline within the coprocessor 450 can be arranged to perform a plurality of different data processing operations on unstructured data. For example, should unstructured data be stored in data store 306 in an encrypted format, then the coprocessor can be configured with a pipeline that performs a decryption operation on the encrypted unstructured data prior to performing a full-text searching operation. Similarly, should the unstructured data be stored in data store 306 in a compressed format, then the coprocessor can be configured with a pipeline that performs a decompression operation on the compressed unstructured data prior to performing a full-text searching operation. Further still, should the unstructured data be stored in data store 306 in an encrypted and compressed format, then the coprocessor can be configured with a pipeline that performs decryption and decompression prior to performing a full-text searching operation.
It should also be noted that a practitioner of the present invention may choose to employ security features within the appliance 200 that will limit the content that is available to various users. Preferably such security features are integrated with various enterprise security architectures such as LDAP, Active Directory, Single Sign-On. It should also be noted that security functionality can be hardware accelerated through the coprocessor 450 if desired. For example, the granularity of security control can be efficiently implemented at the data level rather than at the document level through the use of coprocessor 450. For example, in a preferred embodiment wherein the coprocessor comprises a reconfigurable logic device 402, firmware 350 can be arranged on the reconfigurable logic device to employ entitlement filtering that effectively masks the passage of restricted data to downstream FAMs in a firmware pipeline that are arranged for a specified data processing operation. For example, regular expression pattern matching FAMs can be employed to mask out certain pieces of data (e.g., names, telephone numbers, credit card numbers) from data as it streams through the firmware 350. Similarly, in an application of the invention to the medical records field, select data within a medical record that is to only be seen by doctors/nurses can be filtered using appropriately-configured firmware to prevent a user who is searching through the medical records but who is not authorized to review certain parts of medical records from gaining access to the restricted data. In this way, the data processing employed by the firmware 350 can not only employ query-specified data processing, but also additional ancillary data processing operations, such as entitlement filtering or other security controls, encryption/decryption (see for example, the encryption/decryption techniques described in the above-referenced and incorporated U.S. Patent Application Publication 2007/0237327), or other data processing operations that support the query-specified data processing operation.
It should also be noted that the query-handling technique of using structured data to identify a subset of unstructured data that is to be analyzed using a coprocessor can also be applied in situations where the structured data and the unstructured data are located in the same data store. Exemplary embodiments for this are shown in
While in the preferred embodiment disclosed herein the coprocessor 450 comprises a reconfigurable logic device 402 such as an
FPGA, it should be noted that the coprocessor 450 can be realized using other processing devices. For example, the coprocessor 450 may comprise graphics processor units (GPUs), general purpose graphics processors, chip multi-processors (CMPs), dedicated memory devices, complex programmable logic devices, application specific integrated circuits (ASICs), and other I/O processing components. Moreover, it should be noted that appliance 200 may employ a plurality of coprocessors 450 in either or both of a sequential and a parallel multi-coprocessor architecture.
While the present invention has been described above in relation to its preferred embodiments, various modifications may be made thereto that still fall within the invention's scope. Such modifications to the invention will be recognizable upon review of the teachings herein. Accordingly, the full scope of the present invention is to be defined solely by the appended claims and their legal equivalents.
Indeck, Ronald S., Indeck, David Mark
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